Fingerprinting of soil organic matter as a proxy for assessing climate and vegetation changes in last interglacial palaeosols (Veldwezelt, Belgium)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-162

  Vancampenhout, Karen ^a   Wouters, Katinka ^a   Caus, Alexander ^a   Buurman, Peter ^b   Swennen, Rudy ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

13C; Grain size analysis; Humic fingerprint; Loess; Organic geochemistry; Palaeopedology; Pyrolysis GC MS; Rocourt

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE; INTERGLACIAL; LOESS; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38349129051     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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